Date : Sun, 25 Aug 1991 20:00:00 GMT
From : cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!pitt!grgzfla!dcb@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Daniel C Becker)
Subject: Programming Survey
Fellow CP/Mers, the following is a cross posting of a
request that showed up in comp.org.acm . I am sure it
will be of interest to most of you (if only for
entertainment reasons).
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Dear ACMers....
I am doing some research that includes an opinion survey.
I want input from as many students, faculty, University staff and
private sector programmers as I can get in and out of the U.S.
Those of you in industry please distribute the survey to
co-workers as your group is very important to my research and you
are hard to find.
Please place an asterisk (*) to the left of your response on the
survey form and send it back to me. E-Mail responses will be EXTRACTED
without the header so that anonymity can be preserved. Or if you
prefer my U.S. Mail address is also below.
Here's your big chance to become a statistic !!
Thank you ALL for your participation.
Anne Applin
Class of '92
Southeastern LA University
PCS$1618@SLU.BITNET
OR
102 Azalea Dr.
Hammond, LA 70401
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Goto Attitude Survey
A. Your Personal Attitude (be as objective as possible)
Always Never
1. I use GOTOs. 1 2 3 4 5
Strongly Agree Strongly Disagree
2. Error Branching and
subprogram calls are
really GOTOs. 1 2 3 4 5
3. Languages without GOTOs
are superior languages.
1 2 3 4 5
4. BASIC is a bad language
and should be eliminated
from use. 1 2 3 4 5
5. I believe that GOTOs are:
1. bad. My experience with them is: they are hard to follow.
2. bad. My experience with them is: code is hard to maintain.
3. bad. I believe their use yields unstructured code.
4. bad. I was taught to reguard them as such.
5. good. I find them clear and easy to follow.
6. good. They make it easy to change the program flow.
7. necessary. Neither good nor bad.
6. My first programming language was:
1. Ada
2. Assymbly
3. BASIC
4. C
5. COBOL
6. ForTran
7. Pascal
8. other
7. I wrote my first program:
1. Within the last 12 months
2. 2-5 years ago
3. 6-10 years ago
4. 11-20 years ago
5. 21-30 years ago
6. over 30 years ago
8. I have been programming full time for:
1. less than 1 year
2. 2-5 years
3. 6-10 years
4. 11-20 years
5. 21-30 years
6. over 30 years
Strongly Agree Strongly Disagree
9. I have found that what is taught
and the industry reality are two
different things. 1 2 3 4 5
10. University topics in computer
science lag behind the
functional realities they
try to teach. 1 2 3 4 5
B. Demographic Information
Your programming environment:
11. Who you are:
1. Student
2. University
2. Faculty
3. University Staff Programmer
4. Private Industry Programmer
5. Government or Military Programmer
12. How you work:
1. I program with a team or group
2. I program alone
3. I work individually and on teams
4. I call the shots - I rarely program myself
13. Your primary hardware:
1. Mainframe
2. PC
3. Equal split - Mainframe/PC
14. Your primary language:
1. Ada
2. Assembly
3. C
4. COBOL
5. ForTran
6. Pascal
7. Statistical Package/Data Base Package
8. Other High-Level Language
9. I use CASE tools for application development
Geographical Information:
**** Please mark all that apply
15. I work in: My degrees were earned in
16.BA/BS 17.MA/MS 18.PhD
1. Eastern Europe 1 1 1
2. Western Europe 2 2 2
3. UK 3 3 3
4. Scandanavia 4 4 4
5. USA 5 5 5
6. North America 6 6 6
7. South America 7 7 7
8. Austrailia/NZ 8 8 8
9. Tiawan 9 9 9
10. Japan 10 10 10
11. India 11 11 11
12. Other Asian 12 12 12
Your Educational background:
19. Bachelor or current major: 20. Masters 21. PhD
1. Computer Science 1. 1.
2. Mathematics 2. 2.
3. Management 3. 3.
4. Other Science 4. 4.
5. Other Business related 5. 5.
6. Arts & Humanities 6. 6.
7. Some courses this level 7. 7.
8. No courses this level 8. 8.
22. Your age group:
1. 18-24
2. 25-34
3. 35-44
4. 45-54
5. 55 and over
23. Your Gender:
1. Female
2. Male
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